Re: maybe you can help

[Rossen Naydenov]

try www.debian.org
I think taha I saw recently exactly how to build duobootable system with windows and debian

ross

Tom wrote:

  I am running windows 98 and want to keep it i was 
woundering if i could also run linux system on here as well as my windows 98 
system with out haveing to loose my windows please contact me with this info and 
how i can go about setting this up.. 
   
   
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Re: Problemas de instalacion

[kmself]

on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 01:39:31PM +0100, El señor de los anillos ([EMAIL 
PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Estimado Sr:
> 
> Hola, resulta que me he decidido a instalar Debian en un segundo
> dico duro que tengo como esclavo, la instalacion se produce con
> total normalidad, pero al cabo de un rato, el teclado me deja de
> funcionar, y no es,  que el ordenador se quede colgado,
> simplemente el teclado no funciona, yo creo que puede deberse a un
> conflicto de irq, pero si fuese así ¿Como lo soluciono?. 
> 
> El ordenador no es muy bueno que se diga. poseo un Celeron, y una
> placa base Mazza con targeta grafica y targeta de sonido
> integrados, los cuales los tengo desabilitados el la BIOS del
> ordenador, porque utilizo una targeta de sonido Sound Blaster y
> una Riva TNT2 que incorpore yo posteriormente. La placa no usa
> AGP, unicamente PCI. 
> 
> En fin, no se que hacer, si podeis ayudarme os lo agradecere, sino
> decidme algien que pudiera hecharme un cable.
> 
> Atentamente, un linuxero Alberto M.M.

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Re: start up script operation

[kmself]

on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 02:28:23PM -0500, John Kerr Anderson ([EMAIL 
PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have entered a start up script named  in the /etc/init.d
> directory.  I issued the command  stop 20 0 16 .> which seemed to work OK.  When I restarted the computer
> the changes (starting hdparm & changing the text mode screen colours with
> setterm) failed to change the settings.  Is there something I'm doing
> wrong?  Do I need a separate file for each command?  Any help would be
> appreciated!  :-)
> 
> Here is my sysint file:
> 
> # speeds up I/O for the hard disk
> /sbin/hdparm -c3 -A1 -m8 /dev/hda
> 
> # these commands change the text consoles into blue background and white
> # foreground screen colours.
> /usr/bin/setterm -background blue -foreground white
> /usr/bin/setterm -store

Read the file /etc/init.d/README and references therein for general
information on the SysV init system.

I'd strongly recommend adapting /etc/init.d/skeleton to create a
suitable init file.

What are your file permissions -- executable helps.

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ssh RSA key problem, Please help

[Nick]

I am getting the follwing message, how do I get rid of it??
fresh install of ssh

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh 63.XXX.XXX.2
@@@
@WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @
@@@
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
It is also possible that the RSA host key has just been changed.
Please contact your system administrator.
Add correct host key in /home/nick/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this 
message.
RSA host key for 63.XXX.XXX.2 has changed and you have requested strict 
checking.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

Re: view changelogs of new packages before installing them

[kmself]

on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 09:05:01PM +0100, Andre Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> can I view a package's changelog without having to download it first?
> This would be esp. useful for intended large downloads such as
> kernel-source-*; even kernel-doc-* is more than one meg to download each
> time.

$ apt-get install --download-only package

...You can then browse the package file itself through tools like mc,
gmc, or nautilus, or unpack it (it's a shar shell archive) to a
convenient location.

...I'm not aware that package files are available independently of the
packages themselves.

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Re: Help with themes

[kmself]

on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 12:10:02PM -0800, Alex Espinoza ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> I just switched from Slackware to Debian, and in the
> installation everything wento ok. I have Gnome running
> correctly, except for the themes.
> 
> They don't seem to be working ok, since the themes for
> the scrollbars don't work and tittlebars have bigger
> fonts thatn they are supposed to.

Have you tried modifying the title fonts through the gnome
control-center?

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Re: keyboard won't work with netscape

[kmself]

on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 02:15:44PM -0800, Denzil Kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> >From time to time, I lose the ability to use my
> keyboard with netscape 4.76. It appears to happen
> after entering infomation in a from, and on occasion
> clicking enter or submit on a form will correct the
> problem. Does anyone else have this problem?

Yes.  I've had that one.  It's since gone away -- I'm tracking sid.
Don't recall what the issue was.

Netscape sucks.  Unfortunately, it's about the best browser for my
PPro/180 box

If you've got a faster processor (PIII 300+ MHz), Mozilla's getting
better.  I prefer Skipstone and Galeon from a design standpoint but
wouldn't call them useable.  Konqueror's pretty damned good.  w3m rocks,
if you like ascii-only (I do).

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Re: view changelogs of new packages before installing them

[Eric G. Miller]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 11:27:31PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 09:05:01PM +0100, Andre Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > can I view a package's changelog without having to download it first?
> > This would be esp. useful for intended large downloads such as
> > kernel-source-*; even kernel-doc-* is more than one meg to download each
> > time.
> 
> $ apt-get install --download-only package
> 
> ...You can then browse the package file itself through tools like mc,
> gmc, or nautilus, or unpack it (it's a shar shell archive) to a
> convenient location.
> 
> ...I'm not aware that package files are available independently of the
> packages themselves.

One could try adding this changelog script to ~/.bashrc:

changelog() {
[ $# = 1 ] && lynx http://master.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog\?package=$1
}

However, it doesn't seem to work anymore... Maybe the change to package
pools eliminated to changelogs?

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Re: Hdparm and 2.4 kernel

[Chris Howells]

Generally you need to be root to use hdparm.


I am root! I wouldn't imagine it working it with a non-priveleged user.

There seems to be a gerneral problem with hdparm not being happy under 
the 2.4 kernel -- if I boot 2.2.18 again it works fine.



Even more generally you shouldn't need to use hdparm with 2.4.x kernels.
2.4.x has much better IDE support.


I get much better benchmark results with DMA set on.

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Re: Hdparm and 2.4 kernel

[Chris Howells]

Forrest English wrote:


is your kernel compiled with dma support?  because if it's not, thats not
gonna work.


Yup, pretty sure it is. I'll check though.

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Re: bash segfaulting and not being able to log in

[kmself]

on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 09:44:51PM -0500, Anthony Fox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have two questions:
> 
> 1. Bash segfaults when I hit tab to autocomplete a filename.  I have
>checked the bash FAQ which does not address my specific problem.
>Has anyone seen this?

What version of bash?  In my case:

$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.04.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

You've posted this problem before and we've tried a couple of things
(keysyms, strace), without results.  The problem is odd, I'd try at this
point:

  - Check bash bug reports.
  - Keyboard test.  This appears to be related to the problem.
  - Identify parameters of problem.  
  - Memory test.  Possible but unlikely if bash is the only problem.
  - Reinstall bash.

If the problem persists, file a bug report.

> 2. I log in at the console, /etc/motd is printed, and then I am logged
>out.  I have seen this problem on a box where home directories
>where NFS mounted and the NFS mount did not exist.  My particular
>box does not have home directories mounted, but my partition table
>looks like:

Does this happen when logging in as a regular user, as root, either?

Does /etc/nologin exist?

Check your .bash_profile and .bashrc files, as well as any /etc/bashrc
and /etc/profile files.  You might try renaming these temporarily.

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Re: [OT] Linux palmtop computers?

[kmself]

on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 09:08:47AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Friday 16 March 2001 08:32, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 07:54:50AM +0800, csj wrote:
> > > I'm looking for a Linux-based palmtop computer. Is there such an
> > > animal? I have hit a number of project pages (e.g. pengachu), but
> > > no one seems to be shipping a finished product.
> > >
> > > I prefer a handheld with a keyboard because I find handwriting
> > > recognition too fiddly to let you get any real work done, like
> > > writing the occasional C program ;>)
> >
> > Check out the Agenda.
> >
> > http://www.agendacomputing.com/
> >
> Thanks for the tip.
> 
> I was looking at something more like the Psion. Agenda is a 
> stylus-based PDA. It has a keyboard accesorry but the site says 
> "Note: This item is not yet available." 
> 
> http://www.agendacomputing.com/products/accessories_keyboard.html
> 
> I guess I have to wait some while before writing the Great Online 
> Novel.

'linux handhelds' at google turns up links to other devices.  YOPY, the
Compaq handheld, etc.  You may also want to investigate wearables,
though you'll likely have to build your own in this case.

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Re: fstab

[Rossen Naydenov]

when you log klike a root tri chmod-ing your file so it isn't read only 
and edit it your self


Ross

Robin Gerard wrote:


hello,
I have added a wrong line in my fstab file and when linux starts I have
many errors.
Under root I can open fstab with mc (or xemacs) but read only  and Ican't
change it.
I have not a rescue floopy .
How can I restore my fstab ?
Looking forward for your advice and help.
Many thanks.
Gerard.

Re: Can't SSH. need help!

[kmself]

Please set your line length to 72 characters, without space padding.

on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:11:17PM -0500, Mark Livingstone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> Hi!
>
> One of my boxes is running openssh_2.3.0 with only ssh2 enabled.. When
> i first installed Debian and ssh i could easily connect to that box..
> Having reinstalled it yesterday, i can't make ssh connect, i get the
> following error:
>
> Bad packet length 1397966893
>
> What did i do wrong during the install? When i enable protocol 1 on the
> remote box.. ssh works fine.

In /etc/ssh/sshd_config, check the order of the 'Protocol' line.  I
believe the order you want is "2, 1":

#Protocol 2,1

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D-Link DFE-530TX+ via-rhine.o module

[David Carlile]

Hi,
 
I am extremely new 
to Linux and I hope I am not wasting bandwidth here, but here 
goes.
 
I have a D-Link 
DFE-530TX+ nic card that wasn't in the list when I installed. A source file was 
included on the floppy that came with the card for Red Hat and I attempted to 
compile it, but it puked on me with a number of error messages... I think it was 
expecting my kernel source to be in a certain place and it wasn't. Anyway, I did 
a little looking on the web and found several suggestions to use 
via-rhine.o. What I am wondering is whether there is already a .deb package I 
can run on my cd, or if I have to compile it myself and install it. Any help in 
this matter will be greatly appreciated.

Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory conflict with video card / scsi adapter

[Franck Leclercq]

Hello,
I have installed a debian 2.2r2 on my PC. All is running fine expected
the X SVGA server that hangs the computer when i try to start it in a 
mode superior to VGA 16 colors.   
My video card is a 2Mo S3 ViRGE/DX who was running fine under the SVGA
server in my old linux box. I finally found that there is a conflict  
with the SCSI adapter (adaptec 2940AU) that is now part of my PC. 
There is no IRQ problem, but a "Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 
0xfc00 [0xfc00]" problem: both cards use this same 0xfc00 
adress.   
Is there a way to change these adresses setting? At the boot prompt?  
In the kernel compilation? ...?   
  
Here is the output of cat /proc/pci:  
PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
Host bridge: Intel 82434LX Mercury/Neptune (rev 17).  
  Slow devsel.  Master Capable.  Latency=32.  
  Bus  0, device   2, function  0:
Non-VGA device: Intel 82375EB (rev 3).
  Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  Latency=248.   
  Bus  0, device  14, function  0:
VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE/DX or /GX (rev 1).   
  Medium devsel.  IRQ 11.  Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min   
Gnt=4.Max Lat=255.
  Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfc00 [0xfc00].  
  Bus  0, device  15, function  0:
SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7861 (rev 1).
  Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 11.  Master 
Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=4.
  I/O at 0xd000 [0xd001]. 
  Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfc00 [0xfc00].  
  
Thank you for your attention, 
Regards,  
Franc 

Re: Debian tutorials

[kmself]

on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:34:15AM -0700, Don Collier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hello all.  I have decided to make the jump from RedHat to Debian but
> I am having some problems.  If any of you know of some rather
> informative web sites, howto's, tutorials, and anything else that
> would be of help, I sure would love to check them out.  I have been
> around linux for just over a year so I am not totally lost, but I am
> in need of some documentation to figure things out.  Thanks for the
> help.

As suggested, http://www.debian.org/, though quality of docs varies.
Also, once you've installed your system, /usr/share/doc.  Note that some
packages install documentation separately, and some system documentation
is a separate package entirely.  Highly worth installation for a
general-purpose system.

For books, my recommendation is the Sams book, _Installing Debian
GNU/Linux_, by Thomas Down (~$25), covering basic installation:

  http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=0672317451&vm=

The O'Reilly Debian book by Bill McCarty is uncharacteristically poor.

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Re: backing-up a system?

[kmself]

on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 06:30:22PM +0100, Angel Parra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hello!
> 
>   I meed to make a back-up of a system, I can use removeble HD's and a
> CD-RECORD, ... but how to make it correctly, oncly a tar from important
> directories ???

Your post isn't parsing too well, but the following may be helpful:

   http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html

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Re:

[kmself]

on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 12:00:34PM -0600, Chris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

Please post a subject line.

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Re: Printer Problem

[kmself]

on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 07:59:35PM +0100, Stephan Kulka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> When I try to print out a file , I get the following message:
> 
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] - cannot open connection Connection refused
> >Make sure LPD server is running on the system.
> 
> I am quite confused, because the lpd daemon is started at startup (I even
> rebooted to be sure).
> What is this LPD?? My network is working, I never changed the
> configuration files for the network,so the local network should be ok as
> well.

Have you configured a printer?  I'm not particularly handy at this, but
tend to stumple through printtool, a graphical utility, with some
success.

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Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ via-rhine.o module

[Andrew Suffield]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 12:15:29AM -0800, David Carlile wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am extremely new to Linux and I hope I am not wasting bandwidth here, but
> here goes.
> 
> I have a D-Link DFE-530TX+ nic card that wasn't in the list when I
> installed. A source file was included on the floppy that came with the card
> for Red Hat and I attempted to compile it, but it puked on me with a number
> of error messages... I think it was expecting my kernel source to be in a
> certain place and it wasn't. Anyway, I did a little looking on the web and
> found several suggestions to use via-rhine.o. What I am wondering is whether
> there is already a .deb package I can run on my cd, or if I have to compile
> it myself and install it. Any help in this matter will be greatly
> appreciated.
> 

It's a realtek rtl8193, not a Via Rhine. The + on the end of the name is 
significant - the DFE-530TX is a Via Rhine I or II, the DFE-530TX+ is a Realtek 
8193. The modules are in the kernel-image packages. If you haven't built your 
own kernel you already have it. Run "modconf".

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Re: Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory conflict with video card / scsi adapter

[Eric G. Miller]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:11:14AM +0100, Franck Leclercq wrote:
> Hello,
> I have installed a debian 2.2r2 on my PC. All is running fine expected
> the X SVGA server that hangs the computer when i try to start it in a 
> mode superior to VGA 16 colors.   
> My video card is a 2Mo S3 ViRGE/DX who was running fine under the SVGA
> server in my old linux box. I finally found that there is a conflict  
> with the SCSI adapter (adaptec 2940AU) that is now part of my PC. 
> There is no IRQ problem, but a "Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 
> 0xfc00 [0xfc00]" problem: both cards use this same 0xfc00 
> adress.   
> Is there a way to change these adresses setting? At the boot prompt?  
> In the kernel compilation? ...?   

Are you sure that's the problem?  I suspect it isn't.  Do you have any X
logs that indicate this is the problem?  An ~/.xsession-errors perhaps?

Note: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace should kill X if it is hung.

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xset problem -- dpms keeps shutting off

[kmself]

Debian/Sid, x86.

After a system update yesterday, I noticed:

  - A new splash screen for xscreensaver.
  - xset dpms keeps getting shut off.  
  
My monitor doesn't automatically blank, stand-by, and shut off.  If I
force dpms back on and a monitor shutoff, the monitor comes back on some
time later.

E.g.:

$ xset +dpms 
$ xset dpms 600 900 1200
$ xset dpms force off


Later:

$ xset -q
Keyboard Control:
  auto repeat:  onkey click percent:  0LED mask:  
  auto repeat delay:  660repeat rate:  25
  auto repeating keys:  00ffdbbf
fa9fffdff5ff


  bell percent:  50bell pitch:  400bell duration:  100
Pointer Control:
  acceleration:  25/10threshold:  4
Screen Saver:
  prefer blanking:  yesallow exposures:  yes
  timeout:  0cycle:  0
Colors:
  default colormap:  0x21BlackPixel:  0WhitePixel:  16777215
Font Path:
  
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,unix/:7101
Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 10Suspend: 10Off: 10
  DPMS is Disabled
  
Font cache:
  Server does not have the FontCache Extension

I'm quite perplexed.

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RE: Linux Network Security: POP

[Joris Lambrecht]

I asssumed cable modems were encrypting there communications with some
simple built-in algorithm

-Original Message-
From: Ethan Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: zondag 18 maart 2001 14:59
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Linux Network Security: POP


On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 03:38:36PM +0100, William Leese wrote:
> Having a cable modem I'm concerned with the fact that when I use email my 
> password is sent in clear text over the network. I've heard that there
were 

as you should be, cable modems generally are equivilent to large
unswitched lans, which means any bozo with a cable modem can set thier
machine to primisquous mode and see every packet sent by any cable
modem user.  (at least for that segment) 

> other services that could be used instead of POP but i'm not sure if that
can 
> be used here if my provider doesnt support it.

imap over ssl maybe.. 

> For my email I use my providers POP server. For sending email I also use 
> their server. Though in the past I used sendmail, can someone tell me the 
> advantages of using one over the other?

if you have a static ip and your connection is actually stable you
could just run your own mailserver and have mail delivered directly to
it.  that way you don't need pop3 or imap.  no passwords sent anywhere
that way.  you still need to use GnuPG to encrypt any mail you don't
want everyone seeing but you should do that regardless of your network
connection.  

> Also, if there any way I can encrypt the passwords being sent without the 
> provider taking any needed steps to enable me to do so?

only if you have a shell account on thier pop3 server via ssh, then
you can tunnel the pop3 connection over ssh.  if you have a shell
account on any of thier machines that would probably still be an
improvment since you would get the connection encrypted at least into
thier hopefully switched and secure lan and off the insecure cable
modem network.  

unfortunatly there seems to be a law saying all ISPs must suck, and
thus shell access is an endangered species.  along with static ips,
reliability, security, etc etc

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RE: Linux Network Security: POP

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote:

> I asssumed cable modems were encrypting there communications with some
> simple built-in algorithm

It is my understanding that modern DOCSIS modems use encryption between
the cable modem and the cable head end. The motorola cybersufr brand has
been doing this forever as well. This prevents someone from using some
sort of cable analyser to sniff datagrams after they hit the wire.. 

I wouldn't count on the encryption being actually super secure, but it is
unlikely that someone is going to be sniffing packets by examining the
signals on the coax.

> as you should be, cable modems generally are equivilent to large
> unswitched lans, which means any bozo with a cable modem can set thier
> machine to primisquous mode and see every packet sent by any cable
> modem user.  (at least for that segment) 

This is certianly untrue for modern cable stuff. In general, the bandwidth
on the actual coax is far greater than 10mbit ethernet (coming out of the
modem), even if the modem wanted to it couldn't spew all packets onto the
local lan.

Jason

apt-get and growing cache

[christophe barbe]

Why all downloaded packages are saved in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory.
Can I delete these files ?
Where can I tell to not keep these file ?

I see only one interest in keeping downloaded files, It' s to download only the 
diff when upgrading a package.
But it's not what is done.

Christophe


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RE: Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory conflict with video card / scsi adapter

[Franck Leclercq]

Yes:  
I found the origin of the problem when booting an old ide disk with a 
win98 system installed on it: win98 showed that there was a conflict  
with the SCSI adapter driver: i could change the adress setting of the
SCSI adapter in a dialog box and after reboot (under win98), i had my 
scsi card running perfectly.  
  
ctrl-alt-backspace does not work, i need to power off/on the computer 
to restart.   
  
>Are you sure that's the problem?  I suspect it isn't.  Do you have   
any X 
>logs that indicate this is the problem?  An ~/.xsession-errors   
perhaps?  
  
>Note: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace should kill X if it is hung.

FW: D-Link DFE-530TX+ via-rhine.o module

[David Carlile]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I tried modconf and selected rtl8193. I didn't include any parameters. I got
an error message: "Device or resource busy. Hint: this error can be caused
by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or irq parameters."

Any ideas?

BTW, I checked the card and the link light is on, which kind of suprises me
because I didn't think I had a driver loaded... Is it possible a driver was
automatically loaded? How do I find out? If these questions are too basic, I
would really appreciate a friendly pointer to the correct documentation... I
have been going through a couple of manual docs, but they don't have exactly
what I need.

-Original Message-
From: Andrew Suffield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew
Suffield
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 12:36 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ via-rhine.o module


On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 12:15:29AM -0800, David Carlile wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am extremely new to Linux and I hope I am not wasting bandwidth here,
but
> here goes.
>
> I have a D-Link DFE-530TX+ nic card that wasn't in the list when I
> installed. A source file was included on the floppy that came with the
card
> for Red Hat and I attempted to compile it, but it puked on me with a
number
> of error messages... I think it was expecting my kernel source to be in a
> certain place and it wasn't. Anyway, I did a little looking on the web and
> found several suggestions to use via-rhine.o. What I am wondering is
whether
> there is already a .deb package I can run on my cd, or if I have to
compile
> it myself and install it. Any help in this matter will be greatly
> appreciated.
>

It's a realtek rtl8193, not a Via Rhine. The + on the end of the name is
significant - the DFE-530TX is a Via Rhine I or II, the DFE-530TX+ is a
Realtek 8193. The modules are in the kernel-image packages. If you haven't
built your own kernel you already have it. Run "modconf".

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Re: apt-get and growing cache

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

In christophe barbe's email, 19-03-2001:
> Why all downloaded packages are saved in the /var/cache/apt/archives 
> directory.
> Can I delete these files ?
> Where can I tell to not keep these file ?
> 
> I see only one interest in keeping downloaded files, It' s to download only 
> the diff when upgrading a package.
> But it's not what is done.
> 
> Christophe
> 

In the future, `man apt-get` -- it contains a wealth of useful
information.  

`apt-get autoclean` will remove all the packages that can't be
downloaded from the debian archive (old versions of packeges, etc.) 

`apt-get clean` will remove all the packages in the
/var/cache/apt/archives directory.. 

Jamuraa - Michael Janssen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: no sound with kernel 2.4.2

[christophe barbe]

Hi I've the same problem with Opl3sa2 and kernel 2.4.2.
I have seen threads about that in the kernel mailing list.
Currently I use alsa which works great and is certainly a good solution.
IMHO the OSS ccode in the kernel are going to be replaced by alsa.

Christophe

On jeu, 15 mar 2001 19:16:09 Philipp Bliedung wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I just compiled the 2.4.2 kernel. Everything is working fine except  for
> 
> the sound. Under kernel 2.2.17 I had this is my /etc/modules:
> sound
> mpu401
> ad1848
> opl3sa2
> opl3
> options opl3sa2 dma=1 dma2=0 io=0x538 mpu_io=0x330 mss_io=0x530 irq=7
> options opl3 io=0x388
> 
> I used gom as the mixer. When I booted the 2.4.2 kernel (witeh the same
> /etc/modules) and tried to play a song I got this:
> "Cannot open audio device. Please make sure that the audio device is
> properly configured."
> 
> And when I try to use gom I get this:
> 
> gom   ERROR: Can't open mixer device special file "/dev/mixer": No such
> gom:  device. Error help: if loading a mixer special file leads to "No
> such
> gom:  device", then you most likely do have the kernel sound driver
> gom:   not or incorrectly installed. "Permission denied" means you
> gom:   need  permissions by the local admin in the first place.
> gom:
> gom: Current channel information
> gom: ---
> gom:
> gom: No Name   Rec  Volumes  Vol-0  Vol-1  Locked
> gom:  0.vol-1 -1   -1 -1 1
> 
> But there is a file named /dev/mixer 
> 
> crw-rw1 root audio 14,   0 Jul  5  2000 mixer
> crw-rw1 root audio 14,  16 Jul  5  2000 mixer1
> crw-rw1 root audio 14,  32 Jul  5  2000 mixer2
> crw-rw1 root audio 14,  48 Jul  5  2000 mixer3
> lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   10 Mar 15 18:51 modem ->
> /dev/ttyS3
> lrwxrwxrwx1 root root5 Oct 28 23:51 mouse -> psaux
> 
> When I compiled the kernel I selected everything that was under "sound"
> to be compiled as a module. Also when I try to load these modules by
> hand (insmod mpu401, etc...) it
> doesn't give an error I have no clue why this doesn't work! When I
> boot the 2.2.17 kernel
> everything works just great. Here is what I get when I use gom under
> 2.2.17:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ gom -t
> gom:
> gom: Current channel information
> gom: ---
> gom:
> gom: No Name   Rec  Volumes  Vol-0  Vol-1  Locked
> gom:  0.vol-1  2   75 75 1
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~
> BTW I'm on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 Laptop.
> 
> Help is very much appreciated!
> TIA!
> 
> Philipp
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Transferring Debian

I've set up and tailored a terrific potato 2.2r2 + KDE2 on my laptop and now 
I'd like to replicate this same installation on my desktop via NFS.
My question is: How can I copy a Debian installation from one partition of my 
laptop to another of my desktop?
(I had a go at with "cp -R -d --target-directory=/mydir files", modified fstab, 
but, even if it works, from time to time UID problems emerge)
Vittorio 

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Re: Realplayer

[Oliver Payne]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 07:54:41PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> I'm configuring a "stab;e" machine (with Progeny updates). I need RealPlayer, 
> and
> the install package claims that I should get version 7 fro Real;s web sit.
> 
> I'm afraid that I can only find version 8, am I overlooking soemthing?

Get realplayer_8.0_i386.deb from testing or unstable (I can't remember
which).  I just downloaded the .deb from www.debian.org and used 
"dpkg -i realplayer_8.0_i386.deb": there weren't any dependency problems.

Hope this helps.

Oliver

Re: apt-get and growing cache

[christophe barbe]

Thank you to point me to the man command that I already know (-;.
But you not really answer to my questions.

Why are packages kept ?
How can I stop this ? (how to say "stop keeping downloaded packages")

Thank,
Christophe

On lun, 19 mar 2001 10:27:43 Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.) wrote:
> In christophe barbe's email, 19-03-2001:
> > Why all downloaded packages are saved in the /var/cache/apt/archives 
> > directory.
> > Can I delete these files ?
> > Where can I tell to not keep these file ?
> > 
> > I see only one interest in keeping downloaded files, It' s to download only 
> > the diff when upgrading a package.
> > But it's not what is done.
> > 
> > Christophe
> > 
> 
> In the future, `man apt-get` -- it contains a wealth of useful
> information.  
> 
> `apt-get autoclean` will remove all the packages that can't be
> downloaded from the debian archive (old versions of packeges, etc.) 
> 
> `apt-get clean` will remove all the packages in the
> /var/cache/apt/archives directory.. 
> 
> Jamuraa - Michael Janssen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
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DHCP unavailable during installation

[Justin Jones]

Hello,

I am currently setting up a Compaq Deskpro 2000 Pentium 166 MMX as a Debian 
box.  It has a 3Com ethernet card, which doesn't seem to want to work with 
DHCP.  I'm sure it must be a compatibility problem between Debian and the 
computer, because I had no problem using DHCP with Debian on a different 
computer, nor did I have any trouble with DHCP on this computer with 
FreeBSD.  Here is what is detected during startup:


3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0x1440, 00:60:08:14:86:44 IRQ 3
8k word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/MII interface
MII transceiver found at addres 24, status 786d
Enabling bus-master transmitters and whole-frame receives

Then it apparently loads "via-rhine.c v1.01" about 5 times.

Unfortunately, when I try to configure my network during install, 
DHCP/BOOTP doesn't work, nor do the defaults or my best guesses in the 
manual setup.  I've had trouble with PnP BIOS and ethernet cards with 
Debian before, so I played around in the BIOS, but there aren't a lot of 
options.  I can pretty much only enable/disable bus mastering, and 
enable/disable the card itself.  It was on IRQ 11 but the BIOS suggested I 
move it to IRQ 3.


Could this be a BIOS conflict?  Is there an incompatibility with my network 
card?  Why won't DHCP/BOOTP function properly with Debian?


In any case, I really like the feel of Debian, and I want to run it on my 
system.  Somebody please help!  I don't want to have to install FreeBSD!


Thank you,

Justin Jones

Re: ssh RSA key problem, Please help

[Christoph Simon]

On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 15:29:33 -0800
Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I am getting the follwing message, how do I get rid of it??
> fresh install of ssh
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh 63.XXX.XXX.2
> @@@
> @WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @
> @@@
> IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
> Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
> It is also possible that the RSA host key has just been changed.
> Please contact your system administrator.
> Add correct host key in /home/nick/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this 
  ^^^
> message.
> RSA host key for 63.XXX.XXX.2 has changed and you have requested strict 
> checking.

Sometimes it helps reading the messages. Obviously in known_host there
is an entry which doesn't work with 63.xxx.xxx.2 anymore. Find it and
delete it. Next time it will ask you if it should add another one. Say
yes. Bingo!


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Re: Transferring Debian

[kmself]

on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:36:42AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> 
> I've set up and tailored a terrific potato 2.2r2 + KDE2 on my laptop and now 
> I'd like to replicate this same installation on my desktop via NFS.
> My question is: How can I copy a Debian installation from one partition of my 
> laptop to another of my desktop?
> (I had a go at with "cp -R -d --target-directory=/mydir files", modified 
> fstab, but, even if it works, from time to time UID problems emerge)
> Vittorio 

Better to go through a proper installation.  Cloning a system is best
done on identical hardware.

You can simplify the process by:

  - Install _just_ the base system on the laptop.

  - Saving your current configuration with 

$ dpkg --get-selections > file

  - Copying your current debian package archive to the new system.
These are the files under /var/cache/apt/archives.

  - Set the desktop's package selection:

$ dpkg --set-selections < file

  - Run an apt-get update.  Most of your packages should be fetched from
the existing local archive.

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Re: DHCP unavailable during installation

[Frank Copeland]

On 19 Mar 01 10:20:01 GMT, Justin Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>FreeBSD.  Here is what is detected during startup:
>
>3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0x1440, 00:60:08:14:86:44 IRQ 3
 ^
If you have the usual two serial ports with the standard settings, then
you have an IRQ conflict here. The IO address looks fishy to me as
well, I usually see NICs down around 0x200-0x300.

>Unfortunately, when I try to configure my network during install, 
>DHCP/BOOTP doesn't work, nor do the defaults or my best guesses in the 
>manual setup.  I've had trouble with PnP BIOS and ethernet cards with 
>Debian before, so I played around in the BIOS, but there aren't a lot of 
>options.  I can pretty much only enable/disable bus mastering, and 
>enable/disable the card itself.  It was on IRQ 11 but the BIOS suggested I 
>move it to IRQ 3.

IRQs 5, 9, 10 and 11 are usually free. Something (VGA? sound?) may be
stealing IRQ 11, 10 is the one I would normally pick.

>Could this be a BIOS conflict?  Is there an incompatibility with my network 
>card?  Why won't DHCP/BOOTP function properly with Debian?

DHCP works fine every day for me and Debian.

Frank

Re: How best to install a TrueType font on Debian?

[David Purton]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Alan Chandler wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 00:13:46 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >I have Xfree86 v4 already; I am running (almost) the latest unstable. 
> >Therefore
> >I do not use a separate TrueType font server. I guess then I am wondering 
> >what
> >the best Debian way is to install a new font. There are, if I remember
> >correctly, some TrueType-specific steps (something like ttmkfontdir before
> 
> Just add the font path to XF86Config-4 (in /etc/X11).  I just made a
> directory that matched the others but called ttype.  You need to
> create the fonts.dir file and the program you want for this is
> 
> ttmkfdir
> 
> I had to search the internet for it, and most sites point you at a
> german one that doesn't work.  However I eventually got a copy (can't
> remember where)
> 

I'm sure that this is in a debian package.  Just checked it's in fttools


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on the road to the ski hills, so they can rush down them
as fast as possible, so they can hurry up again in order
to rush down again.  In a way this is funny,...

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Re: deb for AT&T ksh ?

[Colin Watson]

"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone know where I can get a .deb of the AT&T ksh. It's Open Source
>now, you know.

It looks dodgy to me. If you're redistributing it, you have to
periodically check the website for modifications, agree not to frame the
AT&T website, agree not to break US law (there's no place for this in a
licence agreement - I'm not a US citizen, so why should I have to keep
US law? Even if I were, surely I would be bound not to break the law
anyway?), and various other stuff. This means everybody redistributing
Debian (like CD vendors) would end up bound to check AT&T's website
every couple of months, and that sort of thing.

Under section 4, Debian would have to make sure everybody who installs
the package has to explicitly accept the licence agreement, and whoever
packages it would have to make sure AT&T knew where the Debian diff was
kept.

Extra restrictions like this more or less come under DFSG 7, or at least
*some* bit of the DFSG (http://www.debian.org/social_contract).
Certainly nothing else in Debian main has anything like them. As far as
I can see, it isn't "Open Source", and I'm not entirely surprised the
Open Source Definition people haven't got back to them about it.

I think there was a debate about this on debian-legal a few months back.

-- 
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MySQL 3.23.xx on Potato

[Bas van der Zalm]

Dear all,

I would like to have MySQL 3.23.xx on my Potato system, but unfortunately
there isn't a debian-package available for it. Building one out of the source
seems to be the solution. But I have always learned not to mix a package-setup
system with custom build software.

I need the new MySQL version for use with JBoss (requires
transactions-support).

What is the best thing to do for me?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Kind regards,

Bas

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Re: deb for AT&T ksh ?

[Colin Watson]

Jimmy Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm not sure where to go to look into doing that, but probably
>can be found on the Debian web site.

http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ (look for "RFP", a.k.a. "Request For
Package").

>I have a few I am thinking about suggesting myself in case they
>have not already been suggested, glload, xpulse, wmdl, and tuXeyes.

tuxeyes was in potato, but isn't in unstable; I believe nobody had the
inclination to port it to Qt2. If it's already been ported, then perhaps
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (or debian-devel@lists.debian.org, if he
doesn't respond) would like to hear about it).

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apt-server

[Bernhard Wesely]

Hi all,

A friend of mine built some debian-packages, and I now try to put them at an
apt-server for easy installing the packages at my work.
I looked at the Debian-Hompage, but didn't find anything.

Has anyone a hint, where I can start my search again?

Thank in advance,
Bernie

Re: apt-server

[Earl F Hampton]

On Monday 19 March 2001 03:57, Bernhard Wesely wrote:

dpkg -i packagename

> Hi all,
>
> A friend of mine built some debian-packages, and I now try to put them at
> an apt-server for easy installing the packages at my work.
> I looked at the Debian-Hompage, but didn't find anything.
>
> Has anyone a hint, where I can start my search again?
>
> Thank in advance,
> Bernie

Re: FW: D-Link DFE-530TX+ via-rhine.o module

[Earl F Hampton]

On Monday 19 March 2001 01:26, David Carlile wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply.
>
> I tried modconf and selected rtl8193. I didn't include any parameters. I
> got an error message: "Device or resource busy. Hint: this error can be
> caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or irq
> parameters."
>
> Any ideas?
>
> BTW, I checked the card and the link light is on, which kind of suprises me
> because I didn't think I had a driver loaded... Is it possible a driver was
> automatically loaded? How do I find out? 

#lsmod will show you all the loaded modules

>If these questions are too basic,
> I would really appreciate a friendly pointer to the correct
> documentation... I have been going through a couple of manual docs, but
> they don't have exactly what I need.
>
http://www.linuxdoc.org/
Go to how-to html and there is one about ethernet cards and a few more about 
networking.

Re: apt-server

[Bernhard Wesely]

Oh sorry,... I just noticed, that my question was not clear.

I know how to install debian packages, but I want to create a
company-internal apt-server, and I don't know how to do that.
Various pages stated only existing apt-servers or creating packages
(maintainer manuals)

Thanks in advance,
Bernie

- Original Message -
From: "Earl F Hampton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: apt-server


> On Monday 19 March 2001 03:57, Bernhard Wesely wrote:
>
> dpkg -i packagename
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > A friend of mine built some debian-packages, and I now try to put them
at
> > an apt-server for easy installing the packages at my work.
> > I looked at the Debian-Hompage, but didn't find anything.
> >
> > Has anyone a hint, where I can start my search again?
> >
> > Thank in advance,
> > Bernie
>
>
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Re: apt-server

[Colin Watson]

"Bernhard Wesely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>A friend of mine built some debian-packages, and I now try to put them at an
>apt-server for easy installing the packages at my work.
>I looked at the Debian-Hompage, but didn't find anything.

Look at dpkg-scanpackages(8), which scans a directory tree and creates
an appropriate Packages file. Note that you need to gzip that file
afterwards.

The apt-utils package in testing/unstable has a program called
apt-ftparchive, which apparently makes the process easier; I haven't
tried it yet.

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Re: Transferring Debian

[Andrew Suffield]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:36:42AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> I've set up and tailored a terrific potato 2.2r2 + KDE2 on my laptop and now 
> I'd like to replicate this same installation on my desktop via NFS.
> My question is: How can I copy a Debian installation from one partition of my 
> laptop to another of my desktop?
> (I had a go at with "cp -R -d --target-directory=/mydir files", modified 
> fstab, but, even if it works, from time to time UID problems emerge)
> Vittorio 
> 

You're looking for cp -a /path/to/source/files/* /path/to/target/, but as has 
been noted, that's not recommended on different hardware, especially something 
as different as laptop -> desktop. Install debian again on the desktop, but 
selectively copy the configuration files for user-end programs and packages 
such as KDE2. User-level configuration is done entirely in your home directory 
(/home/username), and I suggest copying that (using cp -a), but redoing most of 
the system-level config. It's good practice anyway; a desktop box is unlikely 
to stay constant in it's configuration.

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Re: MySQL 3.23.xx on Potato

[Colin Watson]

"Bas van der Zalm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I would like to have MySQL 3.23.xx on my Potato system, but unfortunately
>there isn't a debian-package available for it. Building one out of the source
>seems to be the solution. But I have always learned not to mix a package-setup
>system with custom build software.

Use 'apt-get source' on the Debian mysql packages, and
'dpkg-buildpackage' to build them; if you have the right development
packages, this will create .debs compiled for your system, which you can
then go ahead and install.

Cheers,

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Re: Hdparm and 2.4 kernel

[Hall Stevenson]

> > is your kernel compiled with dma support?  because if it's
> > not, thats not gonna work.
>
> Yup, pretty sure it is. I'll check though.

If your chipset supports DMA, along with your drives, and you select the
"Use DMA when available..." option in the kernel, it should already have
DMA enabled. If not, I would be hesitant to "force" it on with hdparm.

Hall

Re: apt-server

[Earl F Hampton]

On Monday 19 March 2001 04:13, Bernhard Wesely wrote:
> Oh sorry,... I just noticed, that my question was not clear.
>
> I know how to install debian packages, but I want to create a
> company-internal apt-server, and I don't know how to do that.
> Various pages stated only existing apt-servers or creating packages
> (maintainer manuals)
>

I do a mirror of http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato 

I only get binary-i386 inside each of the sub dirs though. Just that uses 
enough space.

I'm not exactly sure if thats what your asking or not. I'm not sure what an 
apt-server is.

> Thanks in advance,
> Bernie
>

Re: apt problems and why?

[Colin Watson]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I get the following error message 
>
>home:/home/daniel# apt-get -f install
>Reading Package Lists... Done
>Building Dependency Tree... Done
>Correcting dependencies... failed.
>Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  libesd0: Depends: esound-common but it is not installed
>E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused
>by held packages.
>E: Unable to correct dependencies
>
>I cannot solve this problem and also I cannot install any package. Any
>help? This has to be looked at as one of Debian's biggest weakness. We
>boast about Debian easy upgradability but it does sometimes show Msoft
>weaknesses. 

The apt and esound maintainers do listen to bug reports now and again,
but I'm not sure if they read debian-user ...

  http://bugs.debian.org/

Do you have any held packages, like the message says? 'dpkg
--get-selections | grep hold' will tell you.

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Re: ssh RSA key problem, Please help

[Ethan Benson]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 07:42:34AM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 15:29:33 -0800
> Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I am getting the follwing message, how do I get rid of it??
> > fresh install of ssh
> > 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh 63.XXX.XXX.2
> > @@@
> > @WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @
> > @@@
> > IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
> > Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
> > It is also possible that the RSA host key has just been changed.
> > Please contact your system administrator.
> > Add correct host key in /home/nick/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this 
>   ^^^
> > message.
> > RSA host key for 63.XXX.XXX.2 has changed and you have requested strict 
> > checking.
> 
> Sometimes it helps reading the messages. Obviously in known_host there
> is an entry which doesn't work with 63.xxx.xxx.2 anymore. Find it and
> delete it. Next time it will ask you if it should add another one. Say
> yes. Bingo!

well you should take your own advice and read the message, its
possible someone is doing something nasty, it would be prudent to
check with the admin of the site in question and find out of they
changed the host key.  

remember that article recently about ssh being vulnerable to man in
the middle attacks?  the only `vulnerability' is people simply ignoring
that very warning and just throwing away thier local copy of the host
key and blindly accepting a new one without making sure there is no
man in the middle attack occuring.  

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Re: Linux Network Security: POP

[Ethan Benson]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 03:24:09AM +0100, William Leese wrote:
> On Monday 19 March 2001 00:41, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 05:04:02PM +0100, William Leese wrote:
> > > knowing basically nothing about imap and ssl where would i look first to
> > > see if this is suitable and how it can be used?
> >
> > check to see if they have the imap-ssl port open (i don't know it
> > offhand) or the pop3-ssl...  they probably don't.
> 
> yatsu:$  nmap -sS  pop.provider.nl

ummm some isps don't take kindly to being portscanned, there is more
subtle and less obnoxious ways to find out.

> Port   State   Service
> 22/tcp openssh 
> 23/tcp opentelnet  
> 25/tcp opensmtp
> 110/tcpopenpop-3   
> 111/tcpopensunrpc  
> 113/tcpopenauth
> 587/tcpopensubmission  
> 995/tcpopenpop3s   
> 1023/tcp   openunknown
> 
> could pop3s be what i'm looking for?

yes:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ cat /etc/services | grep pop3s
pop3s   995/tcp # POP-3 over SSL
pop3s   995/udp # POP-3 over SSL
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$

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A fact & a problem

The fact
Is there anyone out there able to explain how come, installing Debian potato on 
my desktop, Debian is unable to find my ethernet Realtek 8139 PCI card while 
even Red Hat 6.0 was able to?

The problem 
I need to compile the module for the Realtek ethernet card which I downloaded 
from a linux site (rltk8139.c).
What is the correct procedure under Debian?
Victor

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Re: Hdparm and 2.4 kernel

[Ethan Benson]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 07:59:57AM +, Chris Howells wrote:
> > Generally you need to be root to use hdparm.
> 
> I am root! I wouldn't imagine it working it with a non-priveleged user.
> 
> There seems to be a gerneral problem with hdparm not being happy under 
> the 2.4 kernel -- if I boot 2.2.18 again it works fine.

what chipset?  some (VIA) have been blacklisted in the kernel since
they are too buggy (or the kernel driver is too buggy) 

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Re: ssh RSA key problem, Please help

[Christoph Simon]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 03:39:37 -0900
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> well you should take your own advice and read the message, its
> possible someone is doing something nasty, it would be prudent to
> check with the admin of the site in question and find out of they
> changed the host key.

You are very right in this. But as he asked how to get rid of the
message, and as he said this is a new installation (which means a
previous one had this IP/hostname with another key), I assumed this is
alright in this case. Sorry if that was a mistake.


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Re: Linux Network Security: POP

[William Leese]

> > > > knowing basically nothing about imap and ssl where would i look first
> > > > to see if this is suitable and how it can be used?
> > >
> > > check to see if they have the imap-ssl port open (i don't know it
> > > offhand) or the pop3-ssl...  they probably don't.
> >
> > yatsu:$  nmap -sS  pop.provider.nl
>
> ummm some isps don't take kindly to being portscanned, there is more
> subtle and less obnoxious ways to find out.

oops, acting out of ignorance I'm afraid..

> > Port   State   Service
> > 22/tcp openssh
> > 23/tcp opentelnet
> > 25/tcp opensmtp
> > 110/tcpopenpop-3
> > 111/tcpopensunrpc
> > 113/tcpopenauth
> > 587/tcpopensubmission
> > 995/tcpopenpop3s
> > 1023/tcp   openunknown
> >
> > could pop3s be what i'm looking for?
>
> yes:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ cat /etc/services | grep pop3s
> pop3s   995/tcp # POP-3 over SSL
> pop3s   995/udp # POP-3 over SSL
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$

having taken a quick look at my providers homepage (which, i admit i should 
have done first.. but i'm used to ISP pages with nothing but marketing talk) 
i found something on pop-ssl. However aparently i need an email client that 
supports it. I use Kmail, but.. it doesnt seem to support ssl. Can someone 
confirm this? If I can't use Kmail for it which email client should be well 
suited? I've tried Elm but I found it too hard to use. I've considered using 
Pine but it doesn't seem to be in sid.

Re: Linux Network Security: POP

[Ethan Benson]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 02:03:01PM +0100, William Leese wrote:

> having taken a quick look at my providers homepage (which, i admit i should 
> have done first.. but i'm used to ISP pages with nothing but marketing talk) 
> i found something on pop-ssl. However aparently i need an email client that 
> supports it. I use Kmail, but.. it doesnt seem to support ssl. Can someone 
> confirm this? If I can't use Kmail for it which email client should be well 
> suited? I've tried Elm but I found it too hard to use. I've considered using 
> Pine but it doesn't seem to be in sid.

just do mail the unix way, install fetchmail-ssl (from non-US/main or
so i hear)  configure it to fetch all your mail from the isp and hand
it to the local MTA, then tell kmail to use a local mailspool in
/var/mail/$USER instead of pop3.  

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Re: Linux Network Security: POP

[Ilya Martynov]

> "WL" == William Leese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

WL> having taken a quick look at my providers homepage (which, i
WL> admit i should have done first.. but i'm used to ISP pages
WL> with nothing but marketing talk) i found something on
WL> pop-ssl. However aparently i need an email client that
WL> supports it. I use Kmail, but.. it doesnt seem to support
WL> ssl. Can someone confirm this? If I can't use Kmail for it
WL> which email client should be well suited? I've tried Elm but I
WL> found it too hard to use. I've considered using Pine but it
WL> doesn't seem to be in sid.

You can either use fetchmail with SSL support or use stunnel. With
fetchmail you can fetch your emails via SSL connection. With stunnel
you can create SSL connection between your machine and remote and
forward this connection in decrypted form on local port on your
machine.

-- 
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Monitoring eth0

[romain lerallut]

Hello everyone !

Yesterday, I had (seemingly) no internet-related process running, but the 
"network 
monitoring Epplet" showed incoming traffic on eth0.

How can I know what process uses eth0 ? Maybe some option of "fuser", but I 
couldn't find 
anything in the manpage (I know how to see which process uses a given port, but 
nothing 
more). What console tool exists to monitor eth0 ? I intend to shut down as many 
services as 
required, X included, until I find which process is using my bandwidth.

My apologies for being so unliterate, but I didn't find much about network 
activity monitoring in 
the doc I read. 

TIA,
Romain

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[Joris Lambrecht]

Mail::Sendmail module

i'm trying to get this to work using Perl 5.6.x on an NT4.0 system with IIS
4.0
should work fine except i get this error message

Cannot send data (550 Unable to relay for [EMAIL PROTECTED])

What is causing this error ?

Thank you,

Joris

Re: ppp mystery

[David Wright]

Quoting Gil Elad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Thanks for the advice. It worked like a charm. I don't know why I hadn't 
> thought of it earlier.
> I tried Isolating the one setting which is crucial that the modem received 
> in Windows and not
> in Linux and found out it was AT&B1 which manages the modem's serial port 
> rate.
> &B0 means variable, follows connection rate
> &B1 means fixed serial port rate
> &B2 means fixed in ARQ mode, variable in non-ARQ mode.

Hmm, this is a fairly historical command, and nothing should
change the default which is &B1, i.e. fixed. You should run
the connection between the PC and the modem at the fastest
speed that both support. Frequently this is 115200 bps.

> I guess the port rate needs to be fixed.

Fixed as in non-variable: true. In case you mean you need to
fix (mend) your port settings, here's the typical output
you ought to be seeing on a modem port:

$ setserial -a /dev/ttyS1
/dev/ttyS1, Line 1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
closing_wait: 3000
Flags: spd_normal skip_test

$ stty < /dev/ttyS1
speed 115200 baud; line = 0;
min = 1; time = 0;
-brkint -icrnl -imaxbel
-opost -onlcr
-isig -icanon -iexten -echo -echoe -echok -echoctl -echoke

That's a machine with the modem on ttyS1, COM2, running
mgetty which is waiting for an incoming connection.

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testing dist-upgrade (upgrade apt ... remove vital packages!?)

[Bryan Walton]

This morning I went in to work and started to perform the usual apt-get -f
dist-upgrade on my testing box.  Luckily I always throw in a -s into the
equation first so that I can see what is about to happen:

1) I upgraded to the unstable apt (0.5.0) about a week or two ago.
2) Now, testing wants to upgrade to the new testing version, (0.5.3).  No
problem, yet . . .
3) To do so, my current version of apt wants to remove the following
packages to do that upgrade:

Remv adduser (3.32 Debian:testing)
Remv base-config (0.56 Debian:testing)
Remv bsdmainutils (5.20010126-3 Debian:testing)
Remv lynx-ssl (2.8.3.1-1 Debian:testing)
Remv xserver-xfree86 (4.0.2-7 Debian:testing)
Remv lprng (3.7.4-3 Debian:testing)
Remv ghostview (1.5-23 Debian:testing)
Remv gs (5.10-10.1 Debian:testing)
Remv enscript (1.6.2-4 Debian:testing)
Remv libpaperg (1.0.5 Debian:testing)
Remv esound-common (0.2.22-3 Debian:testing)
Remv realplayer (8.0.2 Debian:testing)
Remv skipstone (0.7-1 Debian:testing)
Remv tpctl-source (0.8.1-5 Debian:testing)
Remv debhelper (3.0.8 Debian:testing)
Remv lynx (2.8.3-1 Debian:testing)
Remv debconf (0.5.65 )
Inst apt (0.5.3 Debian:testing)
Conf apt (0.5.3 Debian:testing)

Does anybody have any ideas?

Thanks,
Bryan


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RE: testing dist-upgrade (upgrade apt ... remove vital packages!?)

[Martin Marconcini]

I see no problem.

I will upgrade without problems.


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-Original Message-
From: Bryan Walton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bryan Walton
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 11:13 AM
To: Debian-User Mailing List
Subject: testing dist-upgrade (upgrade apt ... remove vital packages!?)


This morning I went in to work and started to perform the usual apt-get -f
dist-upgrade on my testing box.  Luckily I always throw in a -s into the
equation first so that I can see what is about to happen:

1) I upgraded to the unstable apt (0.5.0) about a week or two ago.
2) Now, testing wants to upgrade to the new testing version, (0.5.3).  No
problem, yet . . .
3) To do so, my current version of apt wants to remove the following
packages to do that upgrade:

Remv adduser (3.32 Debian:testing)
Remv base-config (0.56 Debian:testing)
Remv bsdmainutils (5.20010126-3 Debian:testing)
Remv lynx-ssl (2.8.3.1-1 Debian:testing)
Remv xserver-xfree86 (4.0.2-7 Debian:testing)
Remv lprng (3.7.4-3 Debian:testing)
Remv ghostview (1.5-23 Debian:testing)
Remv gs (5.10-10.1 Debian:testing)
Remv enscript (1.6.2-4 Debian:testing)
Remv libpaperg (1.0.5 Debian:testing)
Remv esound-common (0.2.22-3 Debian:testing)
Remv realplayer (8.0.2 Debian:testing)
Remv skipstone (0.7-1 Debian:testing)
Remv tpctl-source (0.8.1-5 Debian:testing)
Remv debhelper (3.0.8 Debian:testing)
Remv lynx (2.8.3-1 Debian:testing)
Remv debconf (0.5.65 )
Inst apt (0.5.3 Debian:testing)
Conf apt (0.5.3 Debian:testing)

Does anybody have any ideas?

Thanks,
Bryan


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Re: need help on setting up a ppp connection

[David Wright]

I'm not going to try and work out which machine you are listing these
on or which machine(s) you are trying to dial out of, but I'll just make
a couple of general points.

1) do you have defaultroute set on the ppp machine?

Quoting Bill Shui ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> here's what I got when ppp is not on: (192.168.1.3 is the new gateway box 
> that I was trying to build).
> 
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
> 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  00 eth0
> 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.3 0.0.0.0 UG0  00 eth0

2) if ppp starts when this gateway is present .^
it will say "ppp not replacing existing default route to eth0"
and you won't get your default route through ppp0.

> here's what I got when ppp is on:
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
> 129.78.56.160.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0  00 ppp0
> 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  00 eth0
> 
> 
> this is what I want to get when ppp is on: (129.78.56.17 is given by my ISP, 
> but this is not the DNS, 192.168.1.1 is the old gateway that I have, and it 
> is running).
> 
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
> 129.78.56.170.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0  00 ppp0
> 192.168.1.0 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0   UG0  00 eth0

You don't need a gateway to get to 192.168.1.0 ^
because you're already connected to this net.
  vvv
> 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  00 eth0
> 127.0.0.0   0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0   U 0  00 lo
> 0.0.0.0 129.78.56.170.0.0.0 UG0  00 ppp0

Cheers,

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Re: bash segfaulting and not being able to log in

[Anthony Fox]

kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:

> on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 09:44:51PM -0500, Anthony Fox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have two questions:
> > 
> > 1. Bash segfaults when I hit tab to autocomplete a filename.  I
> > have checked the bash FAQ which does not address my specific
> > problem.  Has anyone seen this?
> 
> What version of bash?  In my case:
> 
> $ bash --version GNU bash, version 2.04.0(1)-release
> (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright 1999 Free Software Foundation,
> Inc.

GNU bash, version 2.04.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu)

> 
> You've posted this problem before and we've tried a couple of things
> (keysyms, strace), without results.  The problem is odd, I'd try at
> this point:

strace didn't work because auto completion using the tab key doesn't
function correctly.  i used gdb to debug a bash process and found the
stacktrace to be failing in libreadline::autocomplete.  the weird
thing is that sometimes it works fine and sometimes it fails.  i can't
duplicate the stacktrace because bash is working fine right now.

>   - Check bash bug reports.  - Keyboard test.  This appears to be
>   related to the problem.  - Identify parameters of problem.  -
>   Memory test.  Possible but unlikely if bash is the only problem.
>   - Reinstall bash.

I recompiled bash from a source .deb.  Last night, while /bin/bash was
segfaulting, I ran the newly compiled bash and it worked just fine.
The differences in sizes of the binaries is large.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l bash-2.04/bash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ant ant 1527145 Mar 18 21:54 bash-2.04/bash*
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l /bin/bash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 404340 Nov 20 17:38 /bin/bash*

The newly compiled binary is almost quadruple the size of the
installed binary.  It is compiled for i686-pc-linux-gnu, but I
wouldn't think that would make such a difference.

Should I install this version?  If so, how do I install a binary that
I have compiled from source?

> > 2. I log in at the console, /etc/motd is printed, and then I am
> > logged out.  I have seen this problem on a box where home
> > directories where NFS mounted and the NFS mount did not exist.  My
> > particular box does not have home directories mounted, but my
> > partition table looks like:
> 
> Does this happen when logging in as a regular user, as root, either?

Both.  Like the bash problem, it happens half the time and half the
time my box works just fine.  That is why I think the problems are
related.

> Does /etc/nologin exist?
> 
> Check your .bash_profile and .bashrc files, as well as any
> /etc/bashrc and /etc/profile files.  You might try renaming these
> temporarily.

I have checked the startup scripts, there is no problem with them.
/etc/nologin does not exist.  Plus, I can log in just fine half the
time.

Thanks for your help.

Anthony

summary failure when rebuilding Debian Package

[Daniel de los Reyes]

I finally figured out samba package for Potato didn't print because it's got 
CUPS support disabled at compile time.

from Changelog:
samba (2.0.7-3) frozen unstable; urgency=high
 * Commented out the section in source/configure.in that
 * auto-detects
 CUPS support and then ran autoconf to generate a new configure
 script. This was done to prevent machines that have
 libcupsys-dev
 installed from detecting CUPS support and adding an
 unwanted dependency on libcupsys. This way the whole
 printing system won't break on upgrades. CUPS support should be
 added after Potato is released.

So I downloaded samba's sources unpacked using dpkg-source, edited
configure.in and uncommented the line:

dnl Auto-detection of CUPS has been turned off in the Debian version of
dnl Samba so machines that have libcupsys-dev installed do not
dnl pick up an unwanted dependency on libcupsys1.
dnl # we need libcups for CUPS support...
AC_CHECK_LIB(cups,httpConnect) < (dnl removed)

And did a dpkg-buildpackage that gives me the following error at
configure time:

checking if large file support can be enabled
no
checking configure summary
configure: error: summary failure. Aborting config
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 1

What did I do wrong?




 
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Re: testing dist-upgrade (upgrade apt ... remove vital packages!?)

[Colin Watson]

Bryan Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This morning I went in to work and started to perform the usual apt-get -f
>dist-upgrade on my testing box.  Luckily I always throw in a -s into the
>equation first so that I can see what is about to happen:
>
>1) I upgraded to the unstable apt (0.5.0) about a week or two ago.
>2) Now, testing wants to upgrade to the new testing version, (0.5.3).  No
>problem, yet . . .
>3) To do so, my current version of apt wants to remove the following
>packages to do that upgrade:
>
[...]
>Remv debconf (0.5.65 )
>Inst apt (0.5.3 Debian:testing)
>Conf apt (0.5.3 Debian:testing)

That version of debconf is newer than the one in testing, which might be
a problem - I imagine it depends on some other version of apt.

-- 
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Problems with talkd

[Preben Randhol]

I cannot get talk to work _to_ my machine. When people try to talk it
says I refuse to talk to them. If I talk to them, then it works. Does
anybody have a solution for this? I use Debian Woody (testing)

Thanks in advance

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RE: Monitoring eth0

[Brooks R. Robinson]

Check out lsof

> -Original Message-
> From: romain lerallut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 7:45 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Monitoring eth0
> 
> 
> Hello everyone !
> 
> Yesterday, I had (seemingly) no internet-related process running, 
> but the "network 
> monitoring Epplet" showed incoming traffic on eth0.
> 
> How can I know what process uses eth0 ? Maybe some option of 
> "fuser", but I couldn't find 
> anything in the manpage (I know how to see which process uses a 
> given port, but nothing 
> more). What console tool exists to monitor eth0 ? I intend to 
> shut down as many services as 
> required, X included, until I find which process is using my bandwidth.
> 
> My apologies for being so unliterate, but I didn't find much 
> about network activity monitoring in 
> the doc I read. 
> 
> TIA,
> Romain
> 
> Check out the Orange Cat! www.garfield.com 
> Get your free customized E-mail from http://gmail.garfield.com !
> 
> 
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Re: NIC identification

[Dave Sherohman]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 12:52:54PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> The NIC is likely a PCI device even when it's integrated into the MB.
> So, try "cat /proc/pci" and look for an "ethernet controller" line. It
> will probably give you the chipset it uses which is usually a pretty
> good starting point.

I am really growing to hate this machine...

hudson:~# cat /proc/pci
cat: /proc/pci: No such file or directory

/proc/bus/pci is there and contains two files (00 and 01), but they're binary
data.  The kernel is 2.2.12, which should support /proc/pci, IIRC.  (Yeah, I
know...  I really should be using a potato CD, but slink is all I had handy.)

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Re: keyboard won't work with netscape

[Mike Brownlow]

Denzil Kelly wrote:
> >From time to time, I lose the ability to use my
> keyboard with netscape 4.76. It appears to happen
> after entering infomation in a from, and on occasion
> clicking enter or submit on a form will correct the
> problem. Does anyone else have this problem?

Yes. It normally happens on mine after choosing an item from a
select field (not all, but many). Switching to a different virtual
screen and back (in E for me) will fix it too, but I have to use
the mouse, because E won't let me use my key bindings after the
event. :) All is restored once a virtual screen can be changed
though.

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allowing ordinary user (non-root) to run apt-get...dpkg...

[Walter Tautz]

i suppose there are a number of solutions ...

adding an appropriate group characteristic to
the executables and the places apt, dpkg write to
under /var and then adding users to the group...

setuidnot a good idea


some sort of server that runs on the host and receives
requests for software and it does the installs

I am thinking of the situation where one has a large collection
of computers with many users. It would be an interesting experiment
to see which packages most users need rather than installing a huge
collection of packages by default. Instead  let the users determine their
needs provided they can use a better tool than apt-cache search or some
kind of user friendly frontend.

-walter

Re: Flash Player ?

[Gavin Hamill]

On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Stan Brown wrote:

> What's the Debian way of installing a Flash Player plugin for Netscape?

Add this to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://forcix.cx/ debian/

then do apt-get update, and apt-get install flashplayer-nonfree

:)

Regards, 

Gavin.

Re: ntpdate, /etc/timezone et all.

[David Wright]

Quoting Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Check that /etc/default/rcS contains the line
> 
> UTC=yes

There's just a little more to it than that. Setting that parameter
will make the /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh script use the correct switch
for its hwclock commands, but you should get into the habit of
using the switch (--utc or its opposite --localtime) when you
use the hwclock command yourself (particularly if you've been
making changes).

Cheers,

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Re: allowing ordinary user (non-root) to run apt-get...dpkg...

[Colin Watson]

Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i suppose there are a number of solutions ...
>
>adding an appropriate group characteristic to
>the executables and the places apt, dpkg write to
>under /var and then adding users to the group...
>
>setuidnot a good idea

How about sudo?

Cheers,

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Re: bash segfaulting and not being able to log in

[Richard C. Cobbe]

Lo, on , March 19, Anthony Fox did write:

> I recompiled bash from a source .deb.  Last night, while /bin/bash was
> segfaulting, I ran the newly compiled bash and it worked just fine.
> The differences in sizes of the binaries is large.
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l bash-2.04/bash
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 ant ant 1527145 Mar 18 21:54 bash-2.04/bash*
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l /bin/bash
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 404340 Nov 20 17:38 /bin/bash*
> 
> The newly compiled binary is almost quadruple the size of the
> installed binary.  It is compiled for i686-pc-linux-gnu, but I
> wouldn't think that would make such a difference.

I can't be certain, but this is most probably because bash-2.04/bash has
not been stripped, so it still has all of the debugging info and symbol
tables in it.  Try running

file bash-2.04/bash

It'll print out something like

bash: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically linked 
(uses
shared libs), stripped

If the last bit says `not stripped', then that's the deal.  You can remove
the extra stuff with the strip command, but these tables don't do any harm
besides taking up disk space.  (Since GNU/Linux, like most modern Unixes,
uses demand loading, the symbol tables and such never get brought into
memory.)  If you do strip the stuff out, though, gdb won't be able to tell
you as much useful information.  In any case, if this is the reason for the
size difference, this is almost certainly not related to your problem.

Unfortunately, I've never experienced the sort of behavior you describe
with bash, so I may not be much help.

Richard

RE: Monitoring eth0

[Alvin Oga]

hi roman

to see what kind of traffic is on your lan

you can run
tcpdump - too much stuff - learn to read fast ??
showtraf- nice  to/from output
netwatch- shows you where traffic goes to/comes from
mrtg(?)

you should be able to explain all the traffic and ip# that is displayed

c ya
alvin
http://www.linux-1u.net ... 1U raid5 ... 500Gb each ..
http://www.linux-consulting.com

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Brooks R. Robinson wrote:

> Check out lsof
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: romain lerallut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 7:45 AM
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Monitoring eth0
> > 
> > 
> > Hello everyone !
> > 
> > Yesterday, I had (seemingly) no internet-related process running, 
> > but the "network 
> > monitoring Epplet" showed incoming traffic on eth0.
> > 
> > How can I know what process uses eth0 ? Maybe some option of 
> > "fuser", but I couldn't find 
> > anything in the manpage (I know how to see which process uses a 
> > given port, but nothing 
> > more). What console tool exists to monitor eth0 ? I intend to 
> > shut down as many services as 
> > required, X included, until I find which process is using my bandwidth.
> > 
> > My apologies for being so unliterate, but I didn't find much 
> > about network activity monitoring in 
> > the doc I read. 
> > 
> > TIA,
> > Romain
> > 
> > Check out the Orange Cat! www.garfield.com 
> > Get your free customized E-mail from http://gmail.garfield.com !
> > 
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RE: NIC identification

[Brooks R. Robinson]

> the kernel with the correct modules for the card. You should be able to
> get the info you need from Dell, especially since they are now
> supporting Linux on many of their systems. They may have a driver/module

This seems to be your best idea.  Your box should have a number on it that
you can plug into the web interface and it will tell you about your machine
specifically.  Once you have an idea what the true hardware is, it'll be
easier.

Brooks

Re: NIC identification

[Hall Stevenson]

> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 12:52:54PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > The NIC is likely a PCI device even when it's integrated
> > into the MB. So, try "cat /proc/pci" and look for an "ethernet
> > controller" line. It will probably give you the chipset it uses
> > which is usually a pretty good starting point.
>
> I am really growing to hate this machine...
>
> hudson:~# cat /proc/pci
> cat: /proc/pci: No such file or directory
>
> /proc/bus/pci is there and contains two files (00 and 01), but
> they're binary data.  The kernel is 2.2.12, which should support
> /proc/pci, IIRC.  (Yeah, I know...  I really should be using a potato
> CD, but slink is all I had handy.)

I'm not familiar with "devfs" at all, but are you using it, by chance ??
Also, I believe the "/proc" filesystem is a kernel option. You may not
have it enabled.

Regards
Hall

Re: can potato handle USB and cable modem?

[Colin Watson]

KingM Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am thinking of installing potato, and wonder if I'll
>have problems with USB and a cable modem.
>
>1.  Will I be able to use USB? How much trouble will
>it be? Do I have to recompile a kernel or just fix
>some comfiguration files? I plan to use a USB mouse
>and a USB printer (Lexmark 312).

You'll need a 2.4 kernel. http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html
might be useful for bringing your system a little more up-to-date.

>2.  I currently have a network with two computers, and
>I would like to install cable modem, and have the
>second computer be able to access the net via the
>cable modem. I would need 2 NIC cards, and the cable
>modem provider is RoadRunner. Has anyone gotten this
>to work?

Try the rrlogind package, which should sort most of it out for you.

Cheers,

-- 
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Changing to MD5 shadow passwords?

[R. Ransbottom]

I would like to convert all of my 
Debian 2.0 and 2.2 systems to MD5 
shadow passwords.  If I understand
the docs correctly all that needs doing
is to add md5 to the apropriate lines
in /etc/pam.d/passwd and /etc/pam.d/login.

Is this correct?

rob Live the dream.

OT : Powerpoint viewer with Wine

[Joris Lambrecht]

Some time ago there was a thread on Powerpoint in Linux. It was suggested
(by me) to use the M$ freeware powerpoint viewer. Someone said he'd check it
out. Are you still here ? How did it go ?

This could prove to be a serieous advantage when trying to make a 'serious'
linux desktop config. Since one of the big arguments is that the Open Source
Office packages cannot always read M$ office files. The freeware viewers CAN
however ;)
If one can view these files and create his/her own with say StarOffice there
is much less of a problem. Hence my renewed interest.

Greets,

Joris

Re: Borland's JBuilder & O'Reilly's _Learning_Java_

[Holger Rauch]

Hi Judith!

Try Sun's JDK 1.3.0. I use that on a Potato system.

By the way, I use emacs as well (with JDE), since I don't like JBuilder's
internal editor ,-)

Greetings,

Holger

Re: summary failure when rebuilding Debian Package

[Carel Fellinger]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 03:37:50PM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
> I finally figured out samba package for Potato didn't print because it's got 
> CUPS support disabled at compile time.

> So I downloaded samba's sources unpacked using dpkg-source, edited
> configure.in and uncommented the line:

yep, needed to do that too. So I did:

$ fakeroot apt-get source -b samba

> checking if large file support can be enabled
> no
> checking configure summary
> configure: error: summary failure. Aborting config

and got a similar error.  Redit it, now as root and no errors, applied
your uncommenting and it's compiling right now.

> What did I do wrong?

maybe you should be root?  configure scripts some times really get
confused if they aren't running as root.

-- 
groetjes, carel

Re: can potato handle USB and cable modem?

[Carel Fellinger]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 03:18:44PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> KingM Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I am thinking of installing potato, and wonder if I'll
> >have problems with USB and a cable modem.
> >
> >1.  Will I be able to use USB? How much trouble will
> >it be? Do I have to recompile a kernel or just fix
> >some comfiguration files? I plan to use a USB mouse
> >and a USB printer (Lexmark 312).
> 
> You'll need a 2.4 kernel. http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html
> might be useful for bringing your system a little more up-to-date.

Not really, 2.2.pre19 does work too. IIRQ loading some modules was
all I had to do. Oh, and changing the printer config to use
/dev/usb/lp0 instead of /dev/lp0:)

> >2.  I currently have a network with two computers, and
> >I would like to install cable modem, and have the
> >second computer be able to access the net via the
> >cable modem. I would need 2 NIC cards, and the cable
> >modem provider is RoadRunner. Has anyone gotten this
> >to work?

Not with a roadrunner, but apart from that it's pretty standard.

-- 
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dhcp server config question

[Rob Zietlow]

I am trying to set up a DHCP server for my home network to run off of my
eth1 interface while my eth0 interface receives a dhcp address from my ISP
on my DSL. I get the following message about my eth0 interface


Milhouse:/home/zietlow# /etc/init.d/dhcp start
/etc/init.d/dhcp: [: =: unary operator expected
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server 2.0pl4
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html

Listening on LPF/eth1/00:a0:cc:e6:2d:3b/192.168.0.0
Sending on   LPF/eth1/00:a0:cc:e6:2d:3b/192.168.0.0
No subnet declaration for eth0 (172.30.12.157).
Please write a subnet declaration in your dhcpd.conf file for the
network segment to which interface eth0 is attached.
exiting.
Milhouse:/home/zietlow#


Here is my dhcp.conf file
# dhcpd.conf
#

# option definitions common to all supported networks...
option domain-name "the-rob.com";

option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
default-lease-time 6000;
max-lease-time 72000;

subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
  range  192.168.0.56 192.168.0.234;
  option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
}
/etc/dhcpd.conf (END)


Any suggestions on what this delaration statement that needs to be put into
the dhcp.conf file is?

TIA
Rob

RE: mail::sendmail

[Joe Rioux]

Relaying on your SMTP mail server is disabled.  You'll need to 
enable relaying for your IP on your SMTP server machine.

-Original Message-
From: Joris Lambrecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 8:51 AM
To: activePerl (E-mail)
Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
Subject: mail::sendmail


Mail::Sendmail module

i'm trying to get this to work using Perl 5.6.x on an NT4.0 system with IIS
4.0
should work fine except i get this error message

Cannot send data (550 Unable to relay for [EMAIL PROTECTED])

What is causing this error ?

Thank you,

Joris
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start-stop-daemon, postgresql, and options

[Andrew Perrin]

Greetings.

Running a locally-compiled postgresql 7.0.3, I'm still trying to get it
to start up automatically at boot time. The trick is, of course, to get
it to start as user postgres instead of root.

I've got it mostly working, using start-stop-daemon; the command is:

start-stop-daemon --start  --exec  --chuid postgres

that works well, EXCEPT that I need to pass a non-standard option to the
postmaster (the option is -i). According to the start-stop-daemon
manpage, I should be able to use -- followed by -i (because anything
following -- is supposed to be passed to the executed program). 
However, it just doesn't happen; I include these, then use pg_ctl status
to check on it, and the -i option isn't there. And the functionality
isn't either -- the database is accessible only from the local machine.

Any ideas?
Thanks.

-- 
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Children's Primary Care Research Group, UNC - Chapel Hill
(919)966-9394 * [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pdf editor ?

[Sven LUTHER]

Hello, ...

Seeing that most everything comes in pdf format these days, and that at least
xpdf, acroread (well it is i386 only and non-free, but still usefull) and gv
can read and display/print this format, i asked myself if would be possible to
edit document in pdf format ? 

Is there a free pdf editor somewhere ?

And if not, is there another solution to do that ? Apart from buying adobe
acrobat, that is.

Thanks for any help on this ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther

Apt, Debconf, and Perl.

[Ray Percival]

Does anyone know how to fix this. I have tried a reinstall of 
deboconf and it did not work. Once again thanks.

Can't locate Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm in @INC (@INC contains: 
/usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.0 
/usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 
/usr/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/share/perl/5.6.0 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux .) at 
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libpaperg.config line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at 
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libpaperg.config line 3.
(in cleanup) Can't call method "close" on an undefined 
value at 
/usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 476 during global 
destruction.
dpkg: error processing libpaperg (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libpaperg
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Re: pdf editor ?

[Andrew Perrin]

Not sure there's literally such a thing as a "PDF Editor"; Acrobat
doesn't let you do much with an existing PDF file. But if you're looking
to *create* PDF files, that you can do with ps2pdf, dvipdf, pdflatex,
... - it depends on the source of the file you want in PDF form.

Andy Perrin

Sven LUTHER wrote:
> 
> Hello, ...
> 
> Seeing that most everything comes in pdf format these days, and that at least
> xpdf, acroread (well it is i386 only and non-free, but still usefull) and gv
> can read and display/print this format, i asked myself if would be possible to
> edit document in pdf format ?
> 
> Is there a free pdf editor somewhere ?
> 
> And if not, is there another solution to do that ? Apart from buying adobe
> acrobat, that is.
> 
> Thanks for any help on this ?
> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther
> 
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Re: pdf editor ?

[Sven LUTHER]

Ok, that clarifies thing for me, so pdf is just another end-format, like ps,
from which i know it is based.

So no hope for me, i will need to get access to the source of said pdf
document.

:(((

Friendly,

Sven Luther

Re: pdf editor ?

[Ilya Martynov]

> "SL" == Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

SL> Hello, ...
SL> Seeing that most everything comes in pdf format these days,
SL> and that at least xpdf, acroread (well it is i386 only and
SL> non-free, but still usefull) and gv can read and display/print
SL> this format, i asked myself if would be possible to edit
SL> document in pdf format ?

SL> Is there a free pdf editor somewhere ?

SL> And if not, is there another solution to do that ? Apart from
SL> buying adobe acrobat, that is.

I've used pdflatex for this. You can create LaTex document then run
pdflatex and get nice pdf file. It even support urls and some other
PDF features.

-- 
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AGAVA Software Company, http://www.agava.com

Re: Monitoring eth0

[Willi Dyck]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 06:58:40AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> 
> hi roman
> 
> to see what kind of traffic is on your lan
> 
> you can run
>   tcpdump - too much stuff - learn to read fast ??
>   showtraf- nice  to/from output
>   netwatch- shows you where traffic goes to/comes from
>   mrtg(?)
> 
You could also use 'iptraf' and/or 'netstat'

> you should be able to explain all the traffic and ip# that is displayed
> 
> c ya
> alvin
> http://www.linux-1u.net ... 1U raid5 ... 500Gb each ..
> http://www.linux-consulting.com
> 
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
> 
> > Check out lsof
> > 
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: romain lerallut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 7:45 AM
> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > > Subject: Monitoring eth0
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hello everyone !
> > > 
> > > Yesterday, I had (seemingly) no internet-related process running, 
> > > but the "network 
> > > monitoring Epplet" showed incoming traffic on eth0.
> > > 
> > > How can I know what process uses eth0 ? Maybe some option of 
> > > "fuser", but I couldn't find 
> > > anything in the manpage (I know how to see which process uses a 
> > > given port, but nothing 
> > > more). What console tool exists to monitor eth0 ? I intend to 
> > > shut down as many services as 
> > > required, X included, until I find which process is using my bandwidth.
> > > 
> > > My apologies for being so unliterate, but I didn't find much 
> > > about network activity monitoring in 
> > > the doc I read. 
> > > 
> > > TIA,
> > > Romain
> > > 
> > > Check out the Orange Cat! www.garfield.com 
> > > Get your free customized E-mail from http://gmail.garfield.com !
> > > 
> > > 
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> > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact 
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> > > 
> > > 
> > 
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Debconf is running in web mode

[Kevin Strong]

When I run apt-get install for a package that I want to install.
Debian states Debconf running in web mode. I was wondering if there is
a way I can make Debian not do this. Thanks for the help in advance.



Kevin Strong,BSBA
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Re: Hdparm and 2.4 kernel

[Phil Brutsche]

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> > Even more generally you shouldn't need to use hdparm with 2.4.x kernels.
> > 2.4.x has much better IDE support.
>
> I get much better benchmark results with DMA set on.

Yes you will but you still don't need hdparm to set DMA mode.

Kernel 2.4 is *very* good at doing that automatically, provided you have
your kernel compiled right.

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Re: apt-get and growing cache

[Frédéric de Villamil]

Yes you can remove them without danger(and with new free space on your hd)
(I think dselect asks you wether to remove them or not)
fred

On Monday 19 March 2001 10:24, christophe barbe wrote:
> Why all downloaded packages are saved in the /var/cache/apt/archives
> directory. Can I delete these files ?
> Where can I tell to not keep these file ?
>
> I see only one interest in keeping downloaded files, It' s to download only
> the diff when upgrading a package. But it's not what is done.
>
> Christophe

Re: Problems with talkd

[Eric G. Miller]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 03:44:44PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote:
> I cannot get talk to work _to_ my machine. When people try to talk it
> says I refuse to talk to them. If I talk to them, then it works. Does
> anybody have a solution for this? I use Debian Woody (testing)
> 
> Thanks in advance

In ~/.bashrc

mesg y

Accepting messages may be turned off by default.

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Progress : mail::sendmail

[Joris Lambrecht]

Found a good smtp host at the ISP we use. But now i get this message below,
I've replaced the IP with some letters for paranoide reasons, as well as the
email adres it returned.

W:\>mail.pl
Error sending to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (550 5.7.1
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying denied.
IP name possibly forged [nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn])


I'm behind a proxy and have to use MS Proxy Client to go outside, this
allready caused lot's of trouble with LWP. Don't tell me i've got to get to
it again. Connecting thru  MSProxy 2.0 with Perl/LWP-libwww seems like
impossible.

Anyone ?

Greets,

Joris

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To: activePerl (E-mail)
Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
Subject: mail::sendmail


Mail::Sendmail module

i'm trying to get this to work using Perl 5.6.x on an NT4.0 system with IIS
4.0
should work fine except i get this error message

Cannot send data (550 Unable to relay for [EMAIL PROTECTED])

What is causing this error ?

Thank you,

Joris
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